Trent Bridge School / Military Hospital Archway, Nottingham

We believe it a right and fitting tribute to honour our local heritage in this way and that this stone archway certainly has provenance. As the Community looked on with great sadness, the last of the three buildings of Trent Bridge School (1909-2014) was demolished. We were moved to try and salvage something of the building. The School had been a vital part of the Community for over 100 years and was remembered with great fondness. The buildings had been used as The Trent Bridge Girls and Boys School, A Military Hospital, Roland Green, Broxtowe Collage and latterly as the King’s School. The Houses in the Boys School were named after Four Men associated with the School who served during the First World War (1914-1918), Laws, Bosworth, Lake & Pearson. We want to highlight how the School had been commandeered for use as a Military Hospital between 1915 and 1918. The War Office list of hospitals, dated October 1917, records: “Trent Bridge Council Schools (Hospital), providing 295 beds in educational premises.” It is important to remember those who served at the hospital and the wounded soldier patients, especially now, during the final year of the Centenary Commemorations. The "Grade II Listed Gardens, of Important Historic Interest", were given "IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR" by Sir Jesse Boot, of 'Boots the Chemist'. English Heritage and the War Memorials Trust, who have an interest in the Gardens, are happy for the Arch to be built in the Gardens, if the Council agrees.